Monday Mornings: A Novel

Sanjay Gupta

Grand Central Publishing, Mar 13, 2012 - Fiction - 304 pages

Every time surgeons operate, they're betting their skills are better than the brain tumor, the faulty heart valve, the fractured femur. Sometimes, they're wrong. At Chelsea General, surgeons answer for bad outcomes at the Morbidity and Mortality conference, known as M & M. This extraordinary peek behind the curtain into what is considered the most secretive meeting in all of medicine is the back drop for the entire book.

Monday Mornings, by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, follows the lives of five surgeons at Chelsea General as they push the limits of their abilities and confront their personal and professional failings, often in front of their peers at M & M. It is on Monday mornings that reflection and introspection occurs, usually in private. It is Monday Mornings that provides a unique look at the real method in which surgeons learn - through their mistakes. It is Monday Mornings when, if you're lucky, you have a chance at redemption.

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Review: Monday Mornings

User Review  - Pris - Goodreads

So-so writing; characters not well developed; repetitive in some places about certain characters, maybe because Dr. Gupta couldn't add anything more about them. On the other hand, the book did make ...

Review: Monday Mornings

User Review  - mellyana - Goodreads

Again, by accident bought this one and like it so much. This kind of book doesn't get much publication - I guess. I like book with specific interest - particularly science. Be it medical, IT, math ...

About the author

Sanjay Gupta, MD, is a practicing neurosurgeon at Emory University Hospital and associate chief of service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Monday Mornings: A Novel
• Author: Sanjay Gupta
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 2012
• ISBN: 0446583855, 9780446583855
• Length: 304 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Medical